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Back in the 60s, the Beatles were a "boy band" sort of, so that was mine. Although I did like Herman and the Hermits, too. Then in high school, drifted into early heavy metal so the boy band phase was over for me.

Ok, no, never cared about boy bands. The closest I ever came was a freshman year of HS obsession with Wham! Well, I maybe still think George Michael is the best ever ever, ok?

But Menudo makes me think about Ricky Martin - good God, that man was pure sex when he came out with that Vida Loca shit. Doesn't matter what team you play for or what team he plays for - he was pure sex moving around up on that stage!

oh, this takes me back. I was best friends with a girl who was wild about NKOTB (and the Coreys, and our junior high student body president). I mean, wild. We were watching NKOTB videos and she would squeal and roll around on the floor. I was 13, too, and remember just staring at her and wondering what the hell was wrong with her.

So funny...I was like heck no I never liked a boy band. But uh, I suppose the fact that I had every I of my walls covered with Duran Duram posters and obsessively watched MTV for a glimpse of them means that I did.

The Beatles years after they broke up, of course. :( I was so obsessed with them, and still am, to a certain extent. Then years later, I secretly listened to my daughter's Back Street Boys CD's. They were catchy, okay?

Frufra!!! I absolutely LOVE George Michael, have since I was about 9 & Wham! was big. I had SUCH a crush on him. *sigh* He even got a shout out on my one time only facebook post of things/people I was thankful for last month. :)

When I was in junior high, everyone else was into New Kids-my friend Dana and I were listening to Led Zeppelin and The Doors.

NSYNC! NSYNC! NSYNC! Ohh man...from 4th-8th grade that was my life. You couldn't see my walls because they were covered in posters I would rip out from J-14 and Bop. My 1st three concerts were Nsync, and my mother tells me those were the worst nights of her life, haha.

I'm not afraid to admit this but I'm still not recovered from them leaving me hanging in 2002, and I still await their reunion. C'mon Justin, we're just waiting on you. I tell myself this every so often...yes, i'm cool.

My first thought was "does Duran Duran count?" LOL! Seems there are quite a few of us. Remember the fold-out posters from Bop and Tiger Beat? I was allllllll about Simon. And the videos were so hot! Rio, Hungry Like the Wolf, Reflex.... Remember when Girls on Film was banned because it was too risque?!?! Positively tame by today's standards!

Man, you gotta love the music snobs. Doesn't make you any cooler no matter what music you like. I love BSB for the kind of music they sing, same as loving NIN for the kind of music they play and Blake Shelton for his. Those that only appreciate one type of music are truly missing out on some great stuff out there.

Nice Vicki! My brother is a HUGE DD fan, he saw them a couple times within the past year and he said it was one of the best concerts ever! They didn't come anywhere close to where I live or I would have gone!

Dating myself here, but THE boy band when I was young was the Bay City Rollers. I also was very much into the Hudson Brothers too. Not so much a boy band, but definitely on the pages of 16 and Tiger beat, which I read religiously.Now, it's pretty much all Aerosmith for me.

OMG. I HATED boybands as a preteen/teen...I thought NKOTB were awful, and couldn't stand any of the 90s pop stuff...Britney or whatever. What I liked first was Guns n Roses and I got then realllly into Britpop (Oasis, Blur) and whiny things like Smashing Pumpkins and grunge. But then I moved to Europe and developed an appreciation for cheesy pop. :) At that point I decided it was okay to think BSB was actually pretty good, even though I still only listened to smartass indie and college radio stuff.

Being honest though, once a mom looking for a cleaner version of power-pop/rock to share , we got totally into the Jonas Brothers. I don't even want to tell you how many times we saw them live. SO I think they were my first?? Then only recently did I get obsessed with Take That's manband era, so they'd be my other...but it was a long evolution. Like reclaiming something I never let myself enjoy as a kid.

My kid is super into One Direction now, and I approve. I don't think it's necessary for her to be a musically snotty brat like I was. :)

The one redeeming feature of "Rock of Ages": when Julianne Hough tells the young man how crappy her life has been since they broke up, and, he tells her "I'm in a boy band", and she replies: "You win".

Oh wait, do the Monkees count, because they started out manufactured? If so, they'd be my first, but....nah...

And rock bands aren't boy bands even if they are all guys, you cheaters! :P And neither are emo bands even though they do kind of feel cheesy, esp when pretty,and I am def a bit embarrassed to admit it when I like them...

Add me to the D2 crowd. I've seen them a few times, but the best was at First Avenue. I went by myself, so I was hanging out with a group of girls, and one of them had screwed Nick in the bathroom during their previous arena tour, lol.

Oh, Hell yeah to the Bay City Rollers! My very first concert, at age 14! Right before they came here, Ian left, so I went to one of the first concerts with Patrick. Got to kiss Woody before I got tossed off the stage.

Okay, Duran Duran were not, and never will be,m a "boy band" you guys. Love them, but no.I loved BSB and I was an adult in my twenties, lol. I never got on the NSCYNC train though. I was not into boy bands when I was young. Just Wham!. I really don't think they were considered a boy band either. George Michael was the man I was going to marry. *sigh*

I loved Wham!, but thought Andrew Ridgley was cuter than George (what did I know, I was 14).We all know that DD were not technically a boy band but were there any boy bands in the early to mid 80's? New Edition, I guess. They were just not as mature and Brittish as DD. Sorry ladies, Simon is mine. Get in line.

They were a boy band definitely, but they became much more. Went from being assigned instruments to play onscreen, to actually playing them. So many of their songs were incredible. Echo & The Bunnymen, their hit "Do It Clean" sounds an awful lot like The Monkees' "Stepping Stone." I'm not complaining, though... I love both!

Totally, ariedana, Take That have hands down the best band story, IMO! Even if you weren't attached to their first go round (I wasn't either). Their post reunion albums are so enjoyable and their shows...love!

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